[topicmapmail] Supporting Gazetteers

[Jason Cupp]

In my line of work a gazetteer is basically a thesaurus of geographic names
with extra-attributes of geographic location (lat, lon) it some coordinate
system.
Has there been any discussion of using a geographically based subject
indicators for topicmaps?

Some examples of gazetteers:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/index.htm
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/faq.html